Metropolis Office Leads13m sq ft of office requirements and deals

Metropolis ran 603 business leads on ‘office movers’ in the month of September 2017. If all reported moves were added together the total would exceed 13 million sq ft of office searches and transactions, researched by Metropolis’ unique market led intelligence research team.

London was the largest region with 290 leads during month, but there were also strong showings from Yorkshire (60), the South East (50), North West (40) and Scotland (40). IT services, professional and financial were the largest business sectors planning relocations or agreeing moves during the month.

The business leads covered the whole UK and provided details of the size of the office occupier, its likely move dates, a description of the reasons for the move, its business sector and full contact details including an address for written inquiries, at least one telephone number and in most cases an email address. Some of the largest planned moves and top picks amongst the 603 September leads, included those on HMRC, ITV, HSBC and UCB Pharma.

The September 2017 leads included 200 ‘identified requirements’. Which means that the company confirmed to researchers that it has current or future plans to search for alternative office space. Of these 200 searches, 110 were new office searches, not previously notified to clients.

The most recent research also included 168 ‘potential movers’ which were mainly longer-term leads on occupiers, considering a relocation, but have yet to make a final decision on whether to search.

Most of the remaining stories covered companies that have signed for new office space and have set a move date, including some large pre-lets and companies inviting tenders for fit-out contracts. Recent research by Metropolis concluded that a conservative estimate of ‘live’ business opportunities on the database exceeded £1bn of business.

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Cityoffices.net, the sister property leads service to Metropolis, saw a further 28 stories posted in September, covering new development opportunities planning applications, consents, construction starts and development teams in London and major cities.

The database now covers over 200 office schemes in the pipeline for construction starts in 2017-2020. For more information on Cityoffices, email andy@metroinfo.co.uk